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    1. James Stewart
    2. Does anyone know if this line relates to a Joseph Stewart (b: ca 1750, d:1823) and Levinah Unkown (b: ca 1755) who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Mason County, Ky ( 1790) and soon after to Adams County, Ohio? I have suspected that Joseph's father was named James. Family tradition maintains this Stewart line arrived in America in 1730 from Glasgow... and settled in "Passaic, VA". I believe this may be a case of muddled oral tradition. My hypothesis currently is that these Stewarts originally settle in the Passaic River Valley of New Jersey and then later moved to Virginia/Pennsylvania. But the other possibility is that these Stewarts did settle in Virginia, but on a river with a name that would evolve into a family memory as "Passaic". I may have located this Joseph Stewart in Morgan Township, Washington County, PA by 1784. But this Joseph Stewart and family are indicated in the 1790 census of Washington County, and this conflicts with the tradition that Joseph Stewart (among a party of five families) arrived at Limestone, KY via keelboat and moved a few miles south of the Ohio River to Washington, KY. Ringing anyone's bell? ps: to _park@digital_ (mailto:park@digital) There is a Park Stewart in this line of Stewarts. Park was born about the time of the Civil War to Alexander Stewart and Matilda Grimes in Brown County, Ohio

    12/21/2005 03:35:21